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Show GOOD EFFECTS OF TROUBLE Much of the Advancement of the World May Be Traced to Those Pugnaciously Inclined. Most of us love trouble that is, most of the human race. Man cannot remain contentedly out of trouble for any length of time, it seems. And if you doubt the statement, all you have to do is to remember the numerous instances in-stances when you were getting along all right, and then deliberately "butted into" something that was not your affair. af-fair. Take the matter of politics, if you please. Half of the political troubles we read about are unnecessary. That Is to say, a lot of the people mixed up In politics are so mixed for no purpose pur-pose in this world save that they may make trouble for themselves or somebody some-body else. For it really makes little difference to the average man who is elected; indeed the average man takes an interest in politics not because he thinks by doing so be can best serve the public, but because he wants a fight. Of course all of us like to lhitrer ourselves our-selves that we are doing something for the nation or the country or a group of people. But the truth is most of lis are doing nothing of the kind. But. did you know that most of the good that has so far resulted to the world has come from the troublemakers, troublemak-ers, and not from the peacemakers? Columbus Dispatch. |